Never an adaptation is as fulfilling as the masterpiece. Film is not an exception. As the small child complained: "The voice is not the same". Jacobs work happily married both story and drawing, thick and nourishing plot with precise and unique pencil. Except for the Nelvana Tntin series I never saw an adaptation truthful to the original storyboard. Many details are added, when not whole inner episodes. That is the case of this B&M series which I discovered in Brussels a few years back, and never having heard about it, bought the DVD set on the spot (all the more with four soundtracks, English, French, Italian and Portuguese). Back at home, disillusion wasn't greater as I did not expect more than cartoons for kids. Jacobs is not there. It’s seeable but not very enjoyable. As for the new stories I never understood, like in the Spirou case, why anyone finds the need, or even admits, to invent other stories than the original ones. 2 out of 5, I’m afraid. |